• Celebrating 100 years of Furrer+Frey!
    16-Jun-2023

    Celebrating 100 years of Furrer+Frey!

    Over the past 100 years, Furrer+Frey has become a global leader in overhead contact line construction and also specialises in charging stations ...

  • MOCS on Mariensiel bascule bridges
    19-Jun-2023

    MOCS on Mariensiel bascule bridges

    The Sande‒Wilhelmshaven section was electrified as part of the ASS project Oldenburg‒Wilhelmshaven. The Mariensiel bascule bridges over the ...

  • 4-metre corridor via Ceneri complete
    19-Jun-2023

    4-metre corridor via Ceneri complete

    The 4-metre north-south corridor was completed in September 2020 with the addition of the Ceneri base tunnel. The next milestone was reached at ...

  • Heitersberg Tunnel: ROCS in record time
    24-Oct-2023

    Heitersberg Tunnel: ROCS in record time

    Over the course of just eight weekends, with the line closed for 54 hours from Saturday to Monday morning each time, the old overhead contact line ...

Emergencies

Emergencies

There is an on-call Service available in Switzerland.
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Jobs

Jobs

Job offers are published here read on Jobs

Systems

Systems

Overhead Contact Line Systems for all kinds of railways, including isolators, feeder switch control and interlockings. read on Systems

OLE Design

OLE Design

Our engineering team are highly trained technicians who work extensively with computer software planning aids, such as Microstation and AutoCAD. Furrer+Frey have developed their own in house contact line configuration software, falp 2.0 (©Furrer+Frey) and the 3D planning tool ELFF (©ELBAS/Furrer+Frey). read on OLE Design

Overhead Contact Line Construction

Overhead Contact Line Construction

Our success is assured by our contract manager’s and assembly teams’ extensive experience. As an organisation we offer our employees continuous training programmes in their area of expertise. In addition, Furrer+Frey invest extensively in research and development of new materials within our current processes. read on Overhead Contact Line Construction

Catalogue

Catalogue

For decades, Furrer+Frey has carried its own range of products, which is continually enhanced. This range is shown in our comprehensive catalogue. read on Catalogue

Railway Control Systems

Railway Control Systems

Railway control systems for depots to control and supervise the switching and earthing process of the overhead contact lines in a safe manner. read on Railway Control Systems

about us

about us

Emil Furrer and Arnold Frey founded the electrical overhead line contact organisation of Furrer+Frey in 1923. During this period the implementations of electrification for Switzerland’s railways were in progress. The company have been making overhead contact line systems ever since and has grown considerably to meet the ever increasing global demands read on about us